Neizvestnye Dokumenty. Maunschaftsgefangenenenlager, Truppe- nubungsplatz.

(Battalion 2, Company 8, Barracks 43)

Alten-Grabow. Deutschland. 13.XI.1915.

Dear friend! The other day I received your address by chance and I am in a hurry to write you a few words. I hope you will receive this letter with not too much delay and will answer me how you are living, are you safe and well? Do you need anything? Can I send you anything and what do you need? Do you read Russian newspapers and books? How to send them?

I have been living with my wife (my mother-in-law died six months ago) here in Bern for the second year. My wife asks me to bow to you very much, and so do my acquaintances. I have recently heard from friends in Siberia, and not bad news2. So, I expect a reply soon, and wish you health and vigor from the bottom of my heart.

Yours V. Ulyanov.

Wl. Ulianow, Seidenweg. 4а. III. (bei Fr. Schneider), Bern (Schweiz).

Published - "Historic Archive", 1995, No. 4, p. 9.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 27136 - autograph.

1E.V.Krupskaya.

2The letters of A.E.Badaev, sent on September 23 (October 5), 1915 from Yeniseisk (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 5, d. 609) and L.B.Kamenev (see: Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 49, p. 153) are probably meant. In Siberia at this time were Bolshevik deputies of the IV State Duma and editor of Pravda L.B.Kamenev, exiled in August 1915, members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP Ya.M.Sverdlov, I.V.Stalin and others.